Download or read book Handbook of Information As to the Several Schools and Courses of Instruction, 1887-1888 (Classic Reprint) written by Columbia University and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of Information as to the Several Schools and Courses of Instruction, 1887-1888 The establishment of a college in the city of New York was many years in agitation before the design was carried into effect. At length, under an act of Assembly passed in December, 1746, and other similar acts which followed, moneys were raised by public lottery for the encourage ment of learning and towards the founding a college with in the colony. These moneys were, in November, 1751, vested in trustees; of these, ten in number, seven were members of the Church of England, and some of these seven were vestrymen also of Trinity Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.